Tracey: Focus on the Family to None

This week's guest is Tracey. Tracey spent her childhood in a white American Christian home where Focus on the Family reigned and "Obey right away" was the expectation.

She was a believer as an adolescent but began asking hard questions in high school. As a young adult, she saw how prideful the leaders were and how easily Christians were pulled in.

"That's a theme through my whole experience of Christianity…Christians are actually attracted to narcissists…People are drawn to or encouraged to seek answers from narcissists."

As an adult, Tracey became Catholic, only to see the same threads running through—narcissism, misogyny, racism, abuse and more.

In the past few years, Tracey's found solace in yoga, meditation and nature. She's grown and been changed, not through the religious

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